Bards - Competitions

[Lady Simone]

> I'm curious about what the bards of this Kingdom think about
> competitions. I have recently been asked to put on two competitions, and
> wonder what other bards think should be the main consideration in a
> competition, performance or documentation of style/material. My personal
> opinion is that the focus should be on performance, since the main aim
> of bardic is to entertain. What does everyone else think?
>
> Ld Charles MacKinnon
> Bryn Gwlad

Judging a bardic peice on entertainment value.....Not a bad Idea but let us
not forget that outside of entertaining. in my Oppinion there is much to be
looked at, The Quality of the performance, if the peice is not an original
is it period or conceringing SCA history. If it is an original peice dose it
follow a period style or theam.  To say a Bard is only an entertainer
diminishes what some of us think bards are. My view is that bards are also
Teachers,  keepers of our history, counslers, as well as entertainers.

thats my two sence
Simone
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